Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister, yesterday met Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.  Trump praised Orban as a great dictator, or something like that.    Orban said Trump indicated he won't give a penny to Ukraine .   Orban is not scheduled to meet with anyone in the Biden administration.  They are both poised to join the president's for life club, now led by Vladimir Putin, Jinping Xi and Kim Jong Un.  Actually, Viktor already is at their level. On 5August2019, a year before the previous U.S. presidential election, it was scarily reported on  how Trump might be scrutinizing Orban's playbook . Trump borrowed his immigration policy from Orban, who fanned anti-migrant sentiment to gain political power in 2010 to dismantle Hungarian democracy. Immigration is just a Trump's first step to establish an autocracy. Orban built a fence on the border with Serbia in 2015.  Donald has his wall. Orban used bogus corruption charges to sideline political opponents.  So did Trump, who

News of the day. No break in the search for Robert Card in Maine.   Follow live updates here. Looks like  Israel  has increased war-like activity in the Gaza Strip.   Time  magazine can only discuss four bad options. Earlier this week Jimmy Kimmel indicated that  Donald Trump will go to jail .  Clearly, Kimmel also doesn't like new Speaker Mike Johnson.   Watch him say the followin g: Johnson, he noted, backed   Donald Trump ’s plot to overturn the 2020 election results and remain in power despite losing. “Also anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-conspiracy theory, he seems terrific,” Kimmel snarked. “Not only is he not the best choice for speaker, you can’t even definitively say Mike Johnson is the best Mike Johnson they could’ve chosen.”   Kimmel then ticked off a list of better Mike Johnsons, from chefs to athletes to yodelers. “You could go to the middle of the phone book and pick any of the hundreds of Mike Johnsons. Each one would be a better choice for speaker because not one of them

South Africa, which first showed signs of the Omicron variant in November, has already declined 80% from their December 17 peak.  Next to get hit, the UK, peaked on January 5, and has dropped 42% since then.  Areas of the USA are also reaching their peak and declining. Mind you, much of the world is suffering, including the USA, averaging 800,000 cases per day over the past week, three times the level of a  year ago.  However, those stricken with the Omicron variant do not get as sick even if unvaccinated, while those who had a booster, hardly get ill at all.  Perhaps mild cold symptoms.  Yet, because Omicron is said to be from 3 to 5 times more contagious, our hospitals just recorded a record high of 156,000 hospitalizations.  Interestingly enough, in Miami, half of the city's hospitalizations are people who were admitted for something else, and then tested positive. I f you want to come to Hawaii  and avoid quarantine, you will need to show proof of a COVID-19 booster shot.  This